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Home > Annual Newsletter
2000-01
Our Distinguished Visitors 1999-2000
- Thomas Friedman, author/journalist. The Lexus and the Olive Branch. October. (INES)
- Holly Shissler, University of Chicago. Ideologies of Turkism: Origins in the Russian Empire and Contemporary Role. November. (INES)
- David Carrasco, Princeton University. America’s Americas: The Brown Millennium and the Ecumenopolis. November.
- Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University. Beyond Good and Evil: Law and Morality in the Kabbalistic Tradition. November.
- Elizabeth Frierson, University of Cincinnati. Duties and Responsibilities: Creating Modern Ottoman Patriots in the Hamidian Era (1876-1909). November. (INES)
- James Gelvin, UCLA. Nationalism in the Arab Middle East: Restoring a Metanarrative. November. (INES)
- Lois Capps, U.S. Congresswoman. Discussion on how Congress views the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the peace process in the Middle East. December.
- Chandra Mukerji, UC San Diego. The Landscape of Heretics: Knowledge of Place in Southwestern France. January. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Catherine Weinberger-Thomas, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud. The Anthropologist, Terrible Things, and the Predicament of Moral Values: The Case of Widow-Burning in India. January. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Laurie Monahan, Department of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB. Crimes Against Nature: Violette Nozieres, Surrealism and Mass Culture. January. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies and co-director of the Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The Resurrection of “Civil Religions”? January.
- Didier Maleuvre, Department of French and Italian, UCSB. Tocqueville and the Philosophical Challenge of America. February. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Lisa Parks, Department of Film Studies, UCSB. Plotting the Personal: Global Positioning Satellites and Interactive Media. February. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Robin Wright, foreign correspondent. Participant in the program “The Global Rise of Religious Politics.” February.
- Ehud Sprinzak, founding director of the Lauder School of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and professor of political science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Participant in the program “The Global Rise of Religious Politics.” February.
- Faye Ginsburg, New York University. Screen Memories: Resignifying “Tradition” in Indigenous Media. February. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Thomas Drew-Bear, CNRS exchange scholar. Religion and the Roman State: Pagan and Christian. February.
- Bernard Faure, Stanford University. The Darker Side of Buddhism. February. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Mara Vishniac Kohn, sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Symposia in Jewish Studies. The Life, Vision and Artistic Work of Roman Vishniac. February.
- Michael Geyer, University of Chicago. Catastrophic Nationalism. March. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Michael Wolfe, presentation of video The Hadj. March.
- Catherine Cole, Department of Dramatic Art, UCSB. Improvising and “Making Do”: The Poetics and Pragmatics of an Invented Theatre Tradition in West Africa. March. (Cultural Analysis Colloquium)
- Rahul Peter Das, Martin Luther University. The Role of the Woman in the Process of Conception: Ancient Indian Medical Theories of Reproduction. March.
- Aijaz Ahmed, Fellow at the Nehru Library in New Delhi and affiliated with York University, Canada. Women, Nation, and the Nation-State: The Personal and the Public in Modern India. April.
- Harold Marcuse, History Department, UCSB. Jewish Tourism in Dachau: The Development and Evolution of a Collective Memory. May.
- Ann Taves, Claremont Graduate School and Claremont School of Theology. Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James. May.
- Tremper Longman, Westmont College. Rereading Ecclesiastes. May. (INES)
- Sogyal Rinpoche, renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. The Transformative Power of Healing and Dying. Part of the Third Annual UCSB Conference on Global Medicine entitled “The Influence of Mind on Healing and Dying,” May.
- Jamal Hussein, Director of Paramann Programme Laboratories and professor of theoretical physics and philosophy of science. A Middle Eastern Perspective on Science and Religion. May.
- McKim Marriott, University of Chicago (emeritus). Anthropologizing a Civilization: India in 3-D and Hindu and Muslim Social Organization. May.
- Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas at Austin. From the Rg-Veda to Asoka: A Brief History of Dharma. May.
- Rabbi Stephen Cohen. Shema Yisrael: The Multiple Meanings of Judaism’s Central Creed. June.
